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| The Trust, through
its various initiatives and sub-initiatives,
has touched lives across India. It has had
a positive impact on the economy as a whole
with its well-directed and purposeful grant
making.
Below are the initiatives and articles
that have appeared in the spotlight section
on the homepage. Read on...
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The focus of the Trusts has been on implementing high quality programmes
that have strong impact on the ground.  |
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Collectives for Integrated Livelihood Initiatives
(CInI), Jamshedpur, with its partners, are
working on kharif productivity stabilisation,
in
the food insecure zones of rural Jharkhand,
to increase staple food production and increasing
income through allied agriculture activities |
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Education
has been one of the key grant making
areas for the Trusts, since their inception.
In 2004-05, the Trusts commissioned
an external review which helped them
realise that making elementary education
accessible, enjoyable and meaningful
for every child, taking into consideration
the interface between education and
the local community, is the real challenge.
They responded with renewed vigour
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| In
this article, RM Lala, noted writer
and author of The Creation of Wealth:
The Tata Story, talks about philanthropy,
what it means to him and the Tata group's
longstanding philanthropic values
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In
the last century, Uttarakhand and Himachal
Pradesh have suffered severe environmental
degradation, which has depleted even
basic resources for daily subsistence
— food, fuel, fodder, and water.
Heavy out-migration of able-bodied males
and loss of forest cover, and the consequent
soil erosion and reduced productivity
of land, have bedevilled the region.
In 2001, the Trust initiated the Himmothan
Pariyojana to focus on the root causes
of such issues. To read more about the
initiative, click here
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In
2008, to address and alleviate farmers’
distress, the Tata Trusts initiated
the comprehensive livelihood focused
‘Sukhi Baliraja Initiative (SBI)’
having a total outreach of more than
25,000 households across 320 villages
of the six distress districts of Amravati,
Yavatmal, Washim, Wardha, Buldana and
Akola in Vidarbha region. These have
been declared as distress districts
by the Government of Maharashtra (GoM)
owing to the spate of farmer suicides
over the past 7-8 years. To read more
about the initiative, click here
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Seawater
ingress due to large-scale groundwater
extraction along the Gujarat coastline,
has led to out-migration of agrarian
communities; decline in cattle population,
agricultural productivity and soil fertility;
and acute scarcity of quality drinking
water. In 2002, in an effort to facilitate
a solution, the Trust, along with its
partner organisations, launched the
Kharash Vistarotthan Yojana (KVY)
To know more about this initiative,
click here
To view the video on salinity ingress
in coastal Gujarat, click here
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The
Trust operationalised the Reviving the
Green Revolution (RGR) initiative in
Punjab in 2002, to seek answers and
solutions to arrest the stagnation that
had set in, in agriculture in Punjab....
To know more about this initiative,
click here
To view the video on Integrated pest
management in cotton in Punjab,
click here |
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For
any change to happen, awareness of mental
health has to first begin with each
one of us. "Mental Health - I need
to know" is an information campaign
started by the Mental Health Initiative
which is supported by the Trusts. It
aims to raise awareness on mental health
and as part of this campaign, offers
a downloadable
e-calendar for the year 2012 |
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Large
pockets of under-served rural populations
in India live amidst poverty and malnutrition.
The lack of access to healthcare has
exacerbated the situation, leading to
morbidity, mortality and indebtedness.
During 2006-07, as part of the overall
Strategic Plan 2011 exercise, the Trust
made efforts towards evolving a plan
to guide funding activities across the
Health portfolio over a five-year period.
To know what the Trust is currently
doing to plug the gaps in the Indian
health care system,
click here |
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Identified
by a unique topography, steep slopes,
varying elevations and niche climatic
conditions, the Central Himalayan region
is unique. Every aspect of rural life
is labour intensive on the steep slopes,
while basic needs like water and sanitation
often remain largely unattended. It
was to address such issues of water,
sanitation and livelihoods in this region
that the Himmothan Pariyojana was initiated
here in 2000, in the state of Uttarakhand
and now expands to Himachal Pradesh.
To know about Trust's Himmothan Pariyojana
initiative, click here |
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Studies
reveal that about 80 per cent of the
rural poor do not have access to formal
financial services. In this context,
Microfinance has emerged as a widely
recognised tool to bring the underprivileged
into the mainstream financial sector.
To know about the Trust's Microfinance
initiative,
click here |
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The
North East Initiative was launched by
the Trust in 2008 for enhancement of
livelihood opportunities through improved
agriculture and sustainable use of natural
resources, and dissemination of knowledge
and expertise on a range of issues facing
the northeast of the country |
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The
centrality of both community based organisations
and non-profit organisations in its
own grant making have encouraged the
Trust to see the Civil Society and Governance
theme as a cross-cutting portfolio that
builds on priorities of other themes
and embeds new initiatives into
them |
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The
Arts and Culture programme aims to strategically
support institutional revitalisation
of the arts in India and support conservation
of India’s cultural legacy through
its
initiatives |
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